Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-06-18

AAAoSaueob = : sStsisyetann mace haste TO
take il back. The storm ho invoked
burst with such sudden fury about his
head that for once the man OF unyield-
ing stubbornness retraoted, recanted and
repented and acknowledged he had
transRressed the written law OF the
nation and the unwritten code OF war.
BE 10 to be commended for his pru.
dence. 1t is not yet time to thus honor
disloyalty.
The Sioux Falls Press, having assailed
the diploma of Edward H.. Pound, OF
Yankton college, and seriously reflected
upon the officers Of that college Tor
granting him diploma, the following
letter was sent the editor OF the Press
by member of the college faculty:
Yankton. Dakota, June 18th 1887.
Editor Sioux Fsiis Press Dear Sir-In
your criticism of the statements con.
tanned In the diploma OF Mr.. Edward IA.
Pound, graduated from Yankton college,
June Sthl 1887 you fall into a direct error.
as to the tact and assumptions as to fact,
which lay your article open 10 the dan
ger which you deplore, that Of "practic..
elng deception In accordance with
the hope you express, that some one else
Is IN FAULT as to The misinformation OF
which you are the innocent victim, /
hasten to say that such is the fact that
yon have been misinformed.
Mr.. Pound left Yankton November 9Th
1885, for Brown university, and returned
to Yankton the following summer, thus
spending two months less than one COL
legiste year at Brown. He entered upon
his last year at Yankton college ia the
fall Of 1886, but was obliged, By family
considerations, again TO leave Yankton
for the winter. He left on the 9th oil
December, 1886, and returned to Yank-
ton May 7th, 1887, at once resuraing
work in the college. The intervening
time was spent in study at Maryyifle,
Tenn. Daring no part Of the period oil
absence was he regarded as other than o
member Of Yankton college. at Brown
he was not entitled to and did not re-
celve fayers that might have been his,
has he not been regarded as member
Of another college taking special work
there. His name does not appear in the
Brown catalogue Of that year. The same
is true Of his work Of ,Maryville.
AS to the stated attendance, SO, upon
which you dilate, no one asserts that he
stetedly attended Yankton college while
he was fifteen hundred miles. away. AS
TO the fact OF hIH attending stated exer-
cises, we hsYe certificates oe his atten.
dance and work from the officers of the
schools which he attended, satisfactory
to, the officers Of this institution and
which amply, justify the statements. OF
the diploma upon which you moralize.
Ii there are in yonr Office any college
graduates, they should be competent to
inform you, that II is q common practice
for students who have spent yeara al
different institutions from the one at
which they finally graduated, to be
graduated upon no different terms from
chose whose entire course hR3 been
taken at that one institution.
In view OF the above facts, think
you may safely correct the statements Of
OF your article and plead that. you were
mis-insormed. At any rate you shall
have the first opportunity 10 make the
corrections. Yours Truly.
JOHN L. SHAW. Yankton College.
To O. q. JOHNSON. Editor Sioux Falls
Press.
In reply to the Press points portion
of the foregoing letter, omitting the
meat and marrow OF the missiye, and
ssys:
From the above it would seem that
Mr.. Pound was at Brown university one
year except the eight weeks al. the be-
ginning Of the college year. and he was
actively d student at Yankten college
for the first two or three months, and
for the last month Of the college year
just closed. In other words instead OF
being absent from Yankton full two
years, Mr.. Pound wss away just about
two-thirds OF the two college years. The
Press regrets that it's informant was not
more explicit, and it is glad to let Prof.
Shaw explain MIR. Pounds absence in
his own words.
Tue college is entitled to full retrao--
tion upon it's presentation of the case,
but this the editor OF the Press does not
manfully grant. Hedged about by his
miserable preiudices and knowing him
self to beswronIg by the record he sullen.
II comedies that there was an error in
his statement. but does net evinee de.
sire to make himself righh.. b; b granting
the college that which is it's due in the
premises. He hides behind technical-
ity Of his own construction. The plain
fact is that Mr.. Pound was fully entitled
to the Yankton eollege diploma. This
the editor Of the Press knows, Knowing
it he would win respect by orsE ack-
nowledgement Of an error. His venom
Was bTewed in the game kettle with
other trorbles now happily disposed OF
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